Today's News

Virginia State Police investigators loaded their cars with boxes of financial documents and computer hardware, and two employees were suspended with pay at Rooftop of Virginia Community Action Program on Friday.

Delmer Fields, chairman of the Rooftop of Virginia Board of Directors, said the employees will be suspended with pay until the financial investigation is concluded.

Rooftop of Virginia is a private, non-profit agency supported by federal, state and local funds.

HILLSVILLE –– Carroll County could quite conceivably be sporting a 3-1 record right now. Martinsville has as much athletic ability as any team in this end of the state.

Call it the game of the week among teams with a combined 1-7 record.

For a myriad of reasons, the Cavaliers (0-4) and the Bulldogs (1-3) just haven’t gotten it done in the win column so far this year, but one of the two will add a W tonight when they meet for a nondistrict game at Dan Green Stadium.

HILLSVILLE –– Carroll County dominated early but faded down the stretch and suffered a rare Southwest District volleyball defeat Tuesday night, falling to Richlands 12-25, 20-25, 25-17, 25-23, 15-9.

Defeated soundly in the first two sets, Richlands came to life in the third and won the final three sets to eke out the win. Carroll County (7-4 overall, 0-1 district) was on its way to a 3-0 match win, leading 11-9 in the third set, when the Blue Tornado went on a 9-1 run to take control.

DRAPER –– The addition of Graham to the Mountain Empire District this fall put a new perspective on the MED golf tournament, owned for the past 10 years by Galax. The former face of double-A Southwest District golf and a solid Region IV contender the past several years, Graham even handed the Maroon Tide a rare regular season district defeat just last week.

INDEPENDENCE — Three polling places in Grayson County will change effective with the November election, despite election workers’ opposition to one of the locations.
Peggy Baldwin and Gretchen Jones both work the polls for Grayson County in the Wilson District.
Each took time during a Sept. 14 public hearing to ask the Grayson Board of Supervisors to consider changing the voting location in the Wilson District to the Mount Rogers Firehouse, instead of the Whitetop Community Center.

HILLSVILLE — There was no drought in support for Mount Roger Planning District Commission’s regional water supply plan in Carroll County.
Both Carroll County and Hillsville Town Council, after visits from planners at their September meetings, approved their parts of the document that includes responses to threats of drought over the long term.